Chapter 693: Detonation

The revolver engraved with rose patterns burst into dazzling fire. A bullet whistled through the gap between the two silver monsters and hit the head of the silver monster in front of the underground steps!

Sparks flew, and the impact of the bullet made the silver monster tilt its head slightly, but it only left an extremely tiny crater on its surface...

It slowly turned its head and locked onto Huang Shuyue not far away, appearing somewhat angry.

It jumped up with force, stepping directly onto the roof of a nearby shop, and with astonishing speed, along with the other three silver monsters, rushed toward Huang Shuyue.

Huang Shuyue's face was deathly pale. She gritted her teeth and turned to run wildly behind her.

Huang Shuyue's running was not because she was afraid, but because she knew she couldn't escape death today, so at least she would try to lure these silver monsters away from the shelter's range as much as possible before she died.

A long dress ran in the rain, and four silver monsters swept across the roofs and streets, pouncing on the girl's body from different directions. Their speed was too fast; in just a blink of an eye, the distance between them shrank rapidly!

Just as Huang Shuyue was about to close her eyes and accept her fate, a figure suddenly rushed out from the Jinghong Building!

"Come on!! You monsters! If you have the guts, come catch me! Don't go after Miss Huang!!"

Hearing this voice, Huang Shuyue's pupils contracted slightly.

She turned her head abruptly to look, and saw Kong Baosheng standing under the eaves dripping with rain, holding a detonator in one hand, roaring at the silver monsters with a firm gaze!

Not far from him was the sugar water shop filled with explosives... which was the second trap Huang Shuyue had set with her own hands.

At this moment, Huang Shuyue guessed Kong Baosheng's idea. He wanted to lure these monsters away and then use himself as bait to solve these silver monsters with the trap!

But unfortunately... things were not as simple as Kong Baosheng thought.

Huang Shuyue's gunshot had already fully drawn the aggro of the four silver monsters. None of them looked at the boy roaring in the rain; they were still biting onto Huang Shuyue!

Huang Shuyue stared at the detonator in Kong Baosheng's hand, and a glimmer of light reignited in her ash-like eyes.

She immediately changed direction and rushed toward the sugar water shop!

Huang Shuyue and the four silver monsters swept past Kong Baosheng's eyes one after another. It was unclear if it was Kong Baosheng's illusion, but in that moment, Huang Shuyue seemed to look at him deeply... her gaze was extremely complex.

"Damn it... why can't I attract them?!"

Kong Baosheng picked up a stone and threw it angrily at the four silver monsters in the rain, but in just a blink of an eye, those silver monsters had run very far, and he hadn't been able to touch them at all.

Just as Kong Baosheng was annoyed, Huang Shuyue had already rushed into the sugar water shop!

Her hair and cheeks were soaked, whether by sweat or rain. After rushing into the sugar water shop, she turned around abruptly and shouted:

"Baosheng!!"

These two words pierced through layers of rain and fell into Kong Baosheng's ears, making his whole body tremble!

He looked at Huang Suyue, who had already rushed into the shop, and as if he had realized something, his face turned deathly pale... Originally, he had intended to lure the strange creatures away from Huang Suyue and lead them into the trap at the sugar water shop to perish together. He felt that a good person like Miss Huang shouldn't die here... But now, the situation was completely different.

Huang Suyue was in the trap; the detonator was in his hand.

Huang Suyue calling his name was a signal for him to seize the moment: once the four silver creatures broke into the sugar water shop, he was to press the detonator and turn everything into ash.

But...

But Huang Suyue was not Xiao Wu; she had no way to escape the trap using the Divine Path. Once he pressed the detonator, Huang Suyue would also be buried within it.

Two of the silver creatures rushed to the entrance of the sugar water shop one after another, while the other two leaped directly from the roof. The four tall figures had blocked the shop's entrance and began to move inside.

Drip—drip—

Drops of water fell from the tips of Huang Suyue's hair.

She stood in the room, holding the revolver with both hands, aiming the muzzle at the four silver creatures as they continuously approached, and calmly pulled the trigger!

Bang, bang, bang, bang—!!

The revolver's cylinder rotated continuously, and shell casings clattered to the ground one by one.

Four bullets fired in succession. At such close range, they hit each silver creature precisely in the head. Sparks flew repeatedly, and the silver creatures' rage grew even more intense.

This revolver only had six bullets in total. As Huang Suyue stopped firing, only the last one remained in the chamber.

"Kong Baosheng!!!" she shouted again.

As her voice fell, she pressed the muzzle of the revolver against her own temple, her pale face filled with determination... The last bullet was the one she had saved for herself.

This action was her way of telling Kong Baosheng that she no longer had a chance to walk out of this sugar water shop.

She knew that asking a child like Kong Baosheng to press the detonator himself was an incredibly cruel thing, but there was no choice now... Either she ended her own life with a single shot before being torn to pieces by the silver creatures, or he pressed the detonator, sending her and the silver creatures to the afterlife together.

Seeing this, Kong Baosheng's entire body trembled uncontrollably.

The reason he had gathered the courage to rush out was that he felt Huang Suyue was a good person—the kindest person he had met in his life, besides his grandmother and Mr. Lin... He didn't want Miss Huang to die. Anyway, he had nothing left now; he would rather trade his own life for hers.

But now... he had to be the one to kill Huang Suyue.

His emotions told him he couldn't do it, but looking at Huang Suyue in the shop with the gun pressed to her head, his reason told him there was no other choice.

Kong Baosheng breathed heavily, his bloodshot eyes staring at the silver creature about to swing its blade at Huang Suyue's head, and finally, he closed his eyes...

He pressed the detonator with all his might!

Boom—!!!

An earth-shattering roar erupted.

Kong Baosheng did not open his eyes. He didn't see the raging flames, the billowing smoke, the figure rolling silently into the ruins under the impact of the explosion, or the silver creatures being torn apart...

When he opened his eyes again, his cheeks were already covered in tear tracks.

"Miss Huang..."

The detonator fell to the ground with a thud. He collapsed limply into a puddle, his head hanging low, like a hollowed-out walking corpse.

……

Drip—drip—

Blood mixed with the rainwater, flowing slowly along the street until it finally drained into the narrow storm drain.

Behind the drain, a pair of pure eyes witnessed everything that had just happened... He stood blankly for a long time, as if terrified.

"Child, why did you run up there?! Come down quickly!" a voice came from below.

Only then did he snap out of his trance, walking down the steps step by step, returning to the crowd in a daze, still clutching the unfinished bread in his arms.

"It seems like there was another explosion up there just now."

"Yeah, that blast was really loud... Could it be that something is coming this way?"

"I don't know..."

"Wasn't this kid lying up there just now? Kid, did you see anything?"

“……”

The people in the underground shelter were eating bread to satisfy their hunger while cautiously exchanging words... Suddenly, some eyes turned toward the child.

The child didn't seem to have recovered from the scene he had just witnessed. He subconsciously hugged the bread in his arms tighter and said softly:

"I... I saw a big sister. She had a gun, and she and a few tall monsters all turned into flames together."

The crowd stood frozen in place.

At this moment, no one noticed,

outside the storm drain where the child had been lying, the hem of a bright red opera costume flickered past in the rain.